Generally you try to remove most of the duck fat (ducks are super fatty) and then roast it kinda like a turkey, though you're supposed to rotate it every half hour or so.
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Season it, roast it, then fry some potatoes using the fat.
I haven't roasted a duck before, but I did roast a goose for the first time last year, and I imagine there are similarities. The high fat content makes the experience a bit different than roasting a chicken. Be sure to have the bird on a wire rack on a pan, and make sure your pan is deep enough to catch a lot of drippings. A lot of fat gets rendered out, and it can be really dangerous. I melted my basting tube trying to get some of the goose fat pool taken out of the pan.
Also: be sure to save those rendered fat drippings! Aside from frying up some delicious, delicious duck fat potatoes to go with your meal that day, you can save the rest in a jar for later delicious use.
The high fat content means that you do risk making a lot of smoke when roasting if you don't diligently remove the rendered fat (make fries with that!). You can use a dual cooking method (e.g. simmering/steaming for primary cooking, and finishing in the pan to brown it), but you may lose a good amount of the rendered fat that way.
Also it tastes much better cooked to medium/medium rare than well done, though standard caveat about eating not fully cooked food applies. I think there's a significantly lower risk of salmonella with duck due to low demand meaning they are raised in better conditions than chickens.
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I haven't roasted a duck before, but I did roast a goose for the first time last year, and I imagine there are similarities. The high fat content makes the experience a bit different than roasting a chicken. Be sure to have the bird on a wire rack on a pan, and make sure your pan is deep enough to catch a lot of drippings. A lot of fat gets rendered out, and it can be really dangerous. I melted my basting tube trying to get some of the goose fat pool taken out of the pan.
Also: be sure to save those rendered fat drippings! Aside from frying up some delicious, delicious duck fat potatoes to go with your meal that day, you can save the rest in a jar for later delicious use.
Also it tastes much better cooked to medium/medium rare than well done, though standard caveat about eating not fully cooked food applies. I think there's a significantly lower risk of salmonella with duck due to low demand meaning they are raised in better conditions than chickens.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/09/the-food-lab-how-to-make-peking-duck-at-home.html
has a decent how to make Peking-duck at home guide.
And some of the steps, like letting it dry over night, will probably apply to any glazed version if you cook it.
I don't think google is a bad place to find a recipe for that
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